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Members of the Rwandan community have taken a hunt for mass killers into their own hands and are giving up their free time to track down and bring to justice war criminals hiding in Toronto.

Community members are volunteering their time and skills to track down several dozen Rwandan war criminals who are among 50 the Canada Border Services Agency says are hiding in the GTA.

John Rukumbura, of the Rwandese Canadian Association, said the community has filed complaints to the RCMP and CBSA but little has been done to nab the suspects.

“These people (war criminals) are very mobile,” Rukumbura said on Monday. “They are being hidden by others in the community.”

He said the fugitives, who were members of the Rwandan government and military leaders, were among the majority Hutus involved in a 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 of the minority Tutsis.

“These people have a network of supporters who help them move around,” Rukumbura said. “We have been tracking a number of them for a long time.”

The suspects arrived here as refugee claimants from Rwanda, Central and South America and the Balkan States, officials said.

Rukumbura said about 20 members of his community have volunteered their time to hunt the criminals, many of whom are using fake documents or those from other countries. Any information collected is given to police.

Rukumbura said the Rwandan fugitives left a trail of emotional and physical damage behind after raping hundreds of women and wiping out entire families.

“Some people are traumatized and still can’t talk about what happened,” he said. “We are trying to get them to come out and say what happened.”

Community members said among the highest-ranking fugitives on the list to capture are former Rwandan environment and tourism minister Gaspard Ruhumuriz, who was last seen in Montreal, and Leon Mugesara, the alleged architect of the genocide, who is living in Quebec, and has been fighting deportation for 15 years.

Both men have their names flagged with Interpol and the Canadian police information system.